Akeil James fired in a hat-trick as ti­tle-hold­er Beck­les En­vi­ron­men­tal Riv­er Plate blast­ed San Juan San Juan 10-1 in their round-of-16 match of the San­ta Cruz Foot­ball Cup at the Bri­an Lara Recre­ation Ground, Sam Bou­caud, Low­er San­ta Cruz on Tues­day.

Dono­van Der­rick and Quin­cy Charles added two goals each while the trio of Keon Cum­mings, An­tho­ny Gup­py and A Danglade chipped in with one each, to can­cel out Shel­don Thomas' lone re­ply for San Juan San Juan.

Join­ing Riv­er Plate in the last-eight of the tour­na­ment which car­ries a $20,000 top prize were for­mer cham­pi­ons Po­lice, Sam Bou­caud, Pi­p­i­ol and new­com­ers' D 14 FC.

On Sat­ur­day, in the first round-of-16 match, for­mer So­ca War­riors strik­er Ker­ry Bap­tiste banged in a dou­ble and ex-na­tion­al youth World Cup mid­field­er Jean-Luc Rochford, one in Sam Bou­caud's 3-0 shut-out of Ma­coya.

A day lat­er, D 14 FC got a goal each T&T lead­ing goalscor­er Stern John, his son Terik John as well as for­mer na­tion­al duo, Gary Glas­gow and Dar­ren Lewis in its 4-0 bash­ing of Pace­mak­ers to main­tain its 100 per cent win­ning record in the com­pe­ti­tion while Pi­p­i­ol got the bet­ter of Mal­ick 3-1, on penal­ty-kicks.

This af­ter both teams bat­tled to a 1-1 draw with Shaquille Long net­ted for Pi­p­i­ol and Jor­van Quam­i­na for Mal­ick.

Po­lice got a goal each from Corey Rivers and S. Stoute to edge past Hot Shots, 2-1. Jim­my Lu­cas was on tar­get for Hot Shots.

Mean­while, na­tion­al Un­der-20 strik­er, Brent Sam got a hat-trick to lead San Juan Youths past Nazarene 6-1 in the round-of-16 play­off to set up a clash with Front Line, to­mor­row. Yes­ter­day, Can­taro Unit­ed faced Va­len­cia in their bat­tle for a quar­ter­fi­nal spot.

The league run­ner-up will get $10,000, third $5,000 and fourth, $3,000.

On Sat­ur­day, the Unipet-spon­sored Garfield De Sil­va Knock­out Cup, fea­tur­ing a first prize of $10,000 and $3,000 for sec­ond will kick off.

Oth­er tour­na­ment spon­sors in­clude Ricky Ra­goo­nanan Group of Com­pa­nies, Beck­les En­vi­ron­men­tal and Mon­te­co Cre­ations.

Fi­nal San­ta Cruz Foot­ball Cup Groups po­si­tions:

Ken­neth Lester Group: 1. Riv­er Plate - 9pts; 2. Hot Shots - 4; 3. Ma­coya FC - 4; North Coast - 0

Mor­ti­ma Joseph Group: 1. Can­taro Utd - 7; 2.Po­lice - 6; 3. San Juan Youths - 3; La Pas­to­ra - 1.

Al­fred Gor­don Group: 1. Front Line - 6; 2. Re­al Pi­p­i­ol - 6; 3. Pace­mak­ers - 4; Vic­tors - 1

Ger­ard Craig­well Group: 1. D 14 FC - 9; 2. Va­len­cia - 6; 3. San Juan San Juan - 3; San­ta Cruz Tour­ing Team - 0

Moses Vi­dale Group: 1. Sam Bou­caud - 7; 2. Mal­ick - 4; Nazarene FC - 3, VFI - 2

Char­lie De Bourg Group: 1. Pi­p­i­ol Utd - 7; 2. Cale­do­nia Re­serves - 7; 3. Trinci­ty Na­tion­als - 3; Back Street 0

Round-of-32 play­off re­sult:

Sat­ur­day:

San Juan Youths 6 (Brent Sam 3, J. Trim­ming­ham, O. Jarvis, D. Ban­field, S. John­son) vs Nazarene 1 (K. Ather­ly)

Round-of-16 re­sults:

Sat­ur­day:

Sam Bou­caud 3 (Ker­ry Bap­tiste 2, Jean-Luc Rochford) vs Ma­coya 0

Sun­day:

D 14 FC 4 (Stern John, Gary Glas­gow, Dar­ren Lewis, Terik John) vs Pace­mak­ers 0

Pi­p­i­ol 1 (Shaquille Long) vs Mal­ick 1 (Jor­van Quam­i­na) - Pi­p­i­ol won on penal­ty-kicks

Mon­day:

Po­lice 2 (Corey Rivers, S. Stoute) vs Hot Shots 1 (Jim­my Lu­cas)

Tues­day:

Riv­er Plate 10 (Akeil James 3, Dono­van Der­rick 2, Quin­cy Charles 2, Keon Cum­mings, An­tho­ny Gup­py, A. Danglade) vs San Juan San Juan 1 (Shel­don Thomas)

Re­main­ing round-of-16 fix­tures:

To­day: Re­al Pi­p­i­ol vs Cale­do­nia Re­serves, 4.15pm

To­mor­row: Front Line vs San Juan Youths, 4.15pm

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